A wiki is a document that is collectively created and maintained. Anyone can edit a wiki. This feature evokes a sense of responsibility and seriousness among most Internet surfers (sometimes this is too much for people). It's a great means to utilize the Internet community, allowing users to build something useful for everyone.

Surprisingly, there are few problems with people abusing wiki. Because modification is both easy and expected, there's no challenge to "breaking" and defacing a page. And that same ease of modification allows anyone to rollback a modification if someone does deface a page.

There is a lot of transparency in wiki. It's possible to learn implicitly from the pages what you need to know to create WikiWords. NetAddresses?? are or can be made to be short, with each piece conveying clear information that people can use (e.g. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CopyRight). Most decisions and action are taken within the wiki, where no one has special power (outside the wiki, some people have a password or physical access to a machine, until someone develops RobustWiki?).

Wikis yield the most fruit (doesn't wiki sound sorta like kiwi?) when they have a specific purpose & are maintained by interested parties in the purpose.

AndrewCates thinks this page is pretty much a copy of WhatIsAWiki and wonders why it exists? Nic Nelson agrees and wonders the same thing. Was there a description of RobustWiki that was accidentally overwritten with a copy of WhatIsAWiki, when someone was wikiing with it? Hope the original (if it existed) is saved somewhere and can be repasted here soon. This is all fascinating. Judging by the mere context of the sentence in which the term was first seen, it could be assumed that a Robust Wiki is an evolved form of Wiki that has more safeguards and/or provisions to protect against malicious tampering. Siamak Farah agrees with this definition of a Robust Wiki. Rob Fitzgerald also agrees with this definition, and wonders if RobustWiki is perhaps a decoy to create a spot in cyberspace for a few otherwise unassociated folks to share in a run-on joke?

If someone knows what a "Robust Wiki" is, please delete all this and provide more pertinent information. Thanks.